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About 10 Nigerian Christians migrating to Spain for a better life were drowned after they were thrown overboard for praying.
Reports have it that fellow travellers(file image) dragged a Nigerian pastor and others who had joined him to pray when...
A farmer has committed suicide in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State after claiming his wife and daughter's lives.
46-year-old Olubusayo Sunday(file image) on Wednesday at Onigbedu town beheaded his wife, Oyewole, and their three-year-old daughter, Esther, and thereafter...
The federal government has disclosed that Lagos and Kano States have been hit by the deadly H5 strain of Avian Influenza virus, Bird flu.
Minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina on Thursday made the announcement in a...
Tanzania Government has banned witchdoctors across the country following the incessant killing of albinos for ritual by callous citizens who want riches overnight.
Home Affairs Minister, Mathias Chikawe made this known while announcing the creation of a task force comprising...
Managing director and chief executive officer of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Gimba Ya'u Kumo who recently ended his tenure has taken to his heels to escape prosecution following the searchlight beamed on him by the National Salaries, Incomes...
A two-man syndicate on motorcycle on Thursday in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital in front of a branch of Unity Bank mistook a polythene-bag held by the regional editor of Leadership newspaper, Abba Kabara(pictured) that had loaves of bread...
Two Nigerians living in the UK, Olatunde Emmanuel Lawal and Abraham George(pictured) have been jailed after they were found guilty of stealing credit card details and used them to live a lavish lifestyle way beyond their means – buying...
The Katsina State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has expressed its worry over the indiscriminate consumption of lizard excreta as another form of intoxicant by youths in the state.
The Katsina State commander of the agency,...
A fraudster posing as Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi on facebook is raising funds from unsuspecting Nigerians under the pretext of helping a baby born with tumour on her face and head.
The trickster who poses as...
Major General Muhammadu Buhari's running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that the door of Redeem Christian Church of God’s Redemption Camp is still open to President Goodluck Jonathan despite his emergence as the vice-presidential candidate of the opposition...
A senior lecturer of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Lagos, Dr. Chimezie Anyakora, who has conducted extensive research on water contamination across Nigeria, broke down the result of the water analysis, explaining that the lead detected in the...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), retired General Muhammadu Buhari has denied rumour that he gave one of his daughters in marriage to an Igbo man.
Buhari said he is blessed with eight daughters and 11 grand...
A displaced Bakassi indigene has used his 12-year-old daughter as collateral for a N600,000(six hundred thousand naira) loan he obtained from a civil servant in Cross River State.
Punch reports that Edet Okon(pictured with the daughter) who was forced out...
The Divisional Police Officer of Ijede Police Station around Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Nwaoha Uzoma was found dead in his office on Christmas day.
Uzoma(pictured) who graduated from University of Calabar in 1997 was a Superintendent of Police. He...
Widower of 35-year-old Martha Ifeoma Ifewulu who was gruesomely murdered in her home in the Oke- Afa area of Lagos, on December 1, has said his late wife was killed by her boyfriend.
The bereaved, Chief Lawrence Ugochukwu Ifewulu,(both pictured)...
Vice-President and President Goodluck Jonathan's running mate in the forthcoming election, Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his Bachelors and Masters degrees certificates in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have been consumed by...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has threatened to institute legal actions against landlords in the state whose houses have no toilet facilities.
Gov. Fayose made the threat on Friday during a live television and radio programme, 'Meet your governor', a...
The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday took political campaign to passengers when he boarded the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).
Osinbajo joined passengers from Tafawa Balewa Square to Barracks and urged people in...
A four-month old baby girl was on Tuesday in Delta State crushed to death by a truck after she fell from a commercial motorcycle (Okada) where she was strapped to her mother's back(file image).
The incident occurred at Okorodafe Roundabout...
14-year-old child bride, Wasila Tasi'u has admitted killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison by signing a confession she could not read - with her thumbprint.
Wasila allegedly killed her farmer husband Umar Sani two weeks after their wedding in...
